How to split a big tar files? Easy 😉 split -b 100000000 thisfile.tar.gz thisfile.tar.gz This will split your file into 100 MB parts with the thisfile name and suffix of gzaa, gzab, gzac, etc… Then how to join them? Easy too 😉 cat thisfile.tar.gz?? > thisfile.tar.gz Until next time 🙂